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  1. Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x
    ×3.95 84 | 270 points by enescakir 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fox Is Buying Roku (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.65 64 | 79 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 (haxx.se)
    ×5.19 30 #48 | 715 points by secret-noun 14 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We're pausing the Agent SDK credit change (Anthropic)
    ×7.44 67 | 11 points by TIPSIO 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What happened to nerds? (mrmarket.lol)
    ×5.36 21 #35 | 679 points by vrnvu 12 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything (windowscentral.com)
    ×5.15 19 #73 | 523 points by josephcsible 22 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Microsoft sued by shareholders over expenses, cloud business, AI (reuters.com)
    ×4.23 46 | 7 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (sfgate.com)
    ×4.50 32 #36 | 91 points by pera 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds (statnews.com)
    ×4.80 49 | 7 points by brandonb 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Google Flight Simulator (google.com)
    ×1.96 19 #44 | 130 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft (restofworld.org)
    ×1.53 18 #89 | 33 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CrankGPT (crankgpt.com)
    ×3.64 17 #23 | 502 points by rishikeshs 7 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claude Corps (anthropic.com)
    ×2.35 22 #37 | 52 points by Mustan 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. ShinyHunters hacked 100 orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day (theregister.com)
    ×2.77 32 #70 | 10 points by billybuckwheat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fruit Is Too Sweet (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.53 21 #68 | 17 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B (salesforce.com)
    ×1.71 14 #34 | 243 points by colesantiago 8 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AI's Brokenomics (wheresyoured.at)
    ×3.13 33 | 5 points by 7777777phil 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. FBI disrupts AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.90 28 | 5 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
    ×2.85 45 | 5 points by chmaynard 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Write for One Person (wizardzines.com)
    ×2.29 11 #88 | 266 points by evakhoury 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Balkan Sworn Virgins (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.98 17 #60 | 19 points by Semaphor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fonable: International calls from the browser, no subscription (fonable.io)
    ×2.95 25 | 5 points by rondo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Flock Misappropriates MythBusters (ipvm.com)
    ×3.63 29 #65 | 9 points by jhonovich 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Not everyone is using AI for everything (gabrielweinberg.com)
    ×3.17 10 | 494 points by yegg 1 day ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)
    ×3.16 15 #18 | 178 points by schu 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?
    ×2.12 17 | 6 points by srevenant 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year (theregister.com)
    ×2.02 12 #53 | 30 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.84 24 | 4 points by bookmtn 58 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Air Force bomber crashed on takoff at California base (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.38 28 #58 | 8 points by r721 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite (greg.technology)
    ×2.52 23 | 4 points by evakhoury 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Your ePub Is fine (andreklein.net)
    ×3.37 8 #39 | 856 points by sohkamyung 21 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Nixpkgs Cooldowns (determinate.systems)
    ×2.56 18 | 4 points by jmartens 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Anthropic's Safety Superpower (stratechery.com)
    ×1.58 7 #42 | 194 points by swolpers 10 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist (theregister.com)
    ×1.46 14 #62 | 8 points by lschueller 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why Earth Sucks Compared to the Planet Hestia [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.07 22 | 3 points by gmays 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Will Siri AI kill AI as a service? (thedent.net)
    ×2.32 27 | 3 points by speckx 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. When Let's Encrypt is valid but GitHub Actions still reject it (jens.dev)
    ×2.34 26 | 3 points by jicea 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. EU Air travellers to enjoy free cabin luggage and keep delay compensation (euronews.com)
    ×1.65 7 #56 | 18 points by TechTechTech 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Today's Frontier AI companies will never exceed the AI capability frontier again (andrewtrask.substack.com)
    ×3.44 9 #41 | 13 points by williamtrask 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. It's Time to Rethink the Offshore Development Model (danstroot.com)
    ×2.10 16 | 3 points by speckx 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to earn a billion dollars (paulgraham.com)
    ×4.66 4 #74 | 697 points by kingstoned 1 day ago | 1826 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins (monash.edu)
    ×1.89 5 #15 | 186 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How are you adapting technical interviews in this agentic era?
    ×1.76 9 | 4 points by jcgr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Britain will ban under-16s from social media apps, including TikTok and YouTube (npr.org)
    ×2.01 13 | 3 points by toomanyrichies 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
    ×2.06 12 | 3 points by Sniffnoy 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Building 2k hackable ESP32 conference badges in four months (temporal.io)
    ×2.12 11 | 3 points by thelonelygod 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says (reuters.com)
    ×4.51 15 #26 | 15 points by tartoran 25 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense (lutasecurity.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 3 points by Leary 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Firewood Splitting Simulator (screen.toys)
    ×4.03 2 #61 | 966 points by memalign 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Fable takedown: what happened when, what we know, what comes next (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×1.96 6 | 3 points by maxutility 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing (github.com/tamnd)
    ×2.70 2 #59 | 676 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Xavier Leroy's New Book on Control Structures in Programming (xavierleroy.org)
    ×1.90 5 | 3 points by birdculture 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Macro – unified system for email, chat, tasks, docs, agents (AGPL/Rust) (github.com/macro-inc)
    ×3.18 39 | 3 points by jbecke 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic (wsj.com)
    ×2.26 2 #63 | 7 points by AnodicElegy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US Government Reportedly Allowing Federal Data Center Rules to Expire (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.44 6 #25 | 10 points by 01-_- 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI (github.com/themartiano)
    ×1.40 1 #51 | 136 points by martiano 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Understand and reduce token usage with ContextSpy context profiler (github.com/RimantasZ)
    ×1.74 2 | 3 points by iezhy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What is a human? A miserable little pile of clades (approximateknowledge.net)
    ×1.88 1 | 3 points by evakhoury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???